New York City Trip Scavenger Hunt
Ellis Island Resources:
Statue of Liberty Resources:
Empty Sky Memorial at Liberty State Park:
Task – Create a word document that answer each of the following:
3. Find out how many people visit each site, on average, each year.
4. Find out how many people have visited each site since its opening.
5. Find 5 or more interesting facts about each site.
6. Research the weather report in New York City for Friday.
**Optional**
7. Suppose you just got off the train at New York’s Penn Station at West 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue. Use Google Maps to create directions
for a walking tour to your Top Three destinations in New York City.
- http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/05/20/408157318/recent-immigrants-find-ellis-island-still-relevant
- https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/
- http://www.nps.gov/elis/index.htm
- http://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island
- http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/
Statue of Liberty Resources:
- http://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm
- http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/307
- http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/statue-history
- http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/engineering/statueofliberty.html
Empty Sky Memorial at Liberty State Park:
Task – Create a word document that answer each of the following:
- Explain the original purpose of each location we will be visiting, and the current purpose.
- What was the original purpose of Ellis Island? What is its purpose today?
- How/when did the US get the Statue of Liberty? What does it represent now?
- What is the purpose of the Empty Sky Memorial? Is its purpose today the same as, or different from, its original purpose?
3. Find out how many people visit each site, on average, each year.
4. Find out how many people have visited each site since its opening.
5. Find 5 or more interesting facts about each site.
6. Research the weather report in New York City for Friday.
**Optional**
7. Suppose you just got off the train at New York’s Penn Station at West 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue. Use Google Maps to create directions
for a walking tour to your Top Three destinations in New York City.